On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.gn...@r-finger.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 25/04/12 23:38, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: >> Technically, the code for fading out the screen and displaying the >> lock screen when the user becomes active again will be added to GNOME >> Shell, and the gnome-screensaver will no longer be used. > > There are security implications of this proposed change. In the event > the Shell crashes, you cannot make any assumptions, and therefore any > guarantees, about how much of the state will be recovered, and hence > that lock will not be compromised. Even if the Shell does restart > successfully, the content of the desktop is visible for the time it > takes the Shell to restart, which is by no means negligible. > > Considering how often Mutter crashes (I see about 3-4 crashes an hour),
Bug references? We should not be crashing 3-4 times per hour. > the WM is a completely unsuitable process to be endowed with any > security responsibilities. I think the screen lock needs to remain a > separate process with a singular focus rather yet another thing for the > WM to deal with. > > Tomas > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list